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situated directly upon a great water power. The western states 

 abound in lead and copper; the country south of Lake Supe- 

 rior in copper and silver; the southern states in gold. Penn- 

 sylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, with many others, in inex- 

 haustible beds of coal, associated also with iron ore, and all these 

 in a country rich in the great staple of the vegetable kingdom. 

 Well may we inquire, what country abounds so much in the ele- 

 ments of prosperity as our own ? And let us rejoice that these 

 elements are neither owned nor controlled by a despot, but belong 

 to the people. 



LEAD, SILVER, AND GOLD MINE IN NORTH CAROLINA. 



This mine is in Davidson co., ten miles southeast of Lexing-i 

 ton. It varies in the amount of the valuable metals which it 

 yields at different depths. 



At the depth of forty feet, the ore yielded, when dressed, fifty ' 

 per cent of lead and from twenty to one hundred and twenty oun-jl 

 ces of silver to the ton of lead. The value of the silver varied! 

 from $1.80 to $2.00 per ounce ; its price being enhanced by thfi; 

 large proportion of gold found in combination with it at this depthj 

 At sixty feet the ore had increased in richness ; and the greatesljl 

 value which portions of the ore had attained, amounted to fiv«|' 

 thousand ounces of silver to the ton ; but those were only smal i 

 portions. The silver is in a metallic state. The average yield i;: 

 one hundred and twenty ounces to the ton. The value of th(! 

 whole yield of the mine for twenty-seven months, was two thou 

 sand six hundred and sixty-one pigs of argentiferous lead, yieldim 

 silver and gold to the amount of $13,288.68. — Taylor^s Report, 

 on the Washington silver mine. 



ARTICHOKES. 



We agree with the Prairie Farmer, that Artichokes are hardl; 

 worth cultivating. They are not so nutritious or prolific as po 



